TALLADEGA, Ala. — Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman left Talladega Superspeedway deeply frustrated, as Busch barrel-rolled his car and landed on top of Newman’s during a wild crash late in the race.

The scary incident, triggered when Ricky Stenhouse attempted to make it four-wide and bounced off the wall and hit JJ Yeley, didn’t result in any injuries but left drivers angry over the typical “Big One” at Talladega.

The 12-car pileup came after a 3-hour, 36-minute rain delay as a heavy cloud cover and sporadic mist and sprinkles made conditions somewhat dicey.

Newman, who has been airborne several times in restrictor-plate races, saw his race come to an end on Lap 183 of the race, which was scheduled for 188 laps but went 192.

"I am doing this interview to let everybody know I'm all right,” Newman said. “They can build safer racecars, they can build safer walls, but they can't get their heads out of their asses far enough to keep them on the racetrack, and that's pretty disappointing.

“I wanted to make sure I get that point across. Y'all can figure out who 'they' is. That's no way to end a race. Our car was much better than that. That's just poor judgment in restarting the race, poor judgment. I mean, you got what you wanted, but poor judgment and running in the dark and running in the rain.”

Busch left the infield medical center saying he was “lovely.”

“Good runs don’t pay well when you finish on the hook,” he said. “I got probably about seven points (actually 15) today. My mom doesn’t come to four races a year — Daytona and Talladega. I wonder why.”

Stenhouse felt bad for causing the accident but said he had try to do something as Yeley’s car was holding up the outside line.

“I felt like if I could get to the outside, I had a lot of cars that were going to come with me there and just didn’t quite end up having enough room after we got about to his door,” he said.

“It was pretty dark so I don’t know if his spotter could really see or not but I felt like I got up to his door and got pinched to the wall.”

The accident collected Danica Patrick and Terry Labonte in addition to Busch, Yeley and Newman.

Stenhouse, who finished 13th, said he felt the other drivers knew the wreck was just a product of Talladega, and added, “I can’t talk to everybody, there’s a lot.”

“Obviously it was really big and you never want to see that and you definitely don’t want to be the one to start it,” Stenhouse said. “That’s Talladega for you, that’s drafting, that’s superspeedways. Sometimes it just happens that way.”

While Newman was angry over the conditions, other drivers didn’t question the track or the visibility.

“It was plenty dry enough,” said Matt Kenseth, who led 142 laps and wound up eighth. “That was no problem. It was fairly dark. We could see what was going on. I’m not sure how good the spotters could see. It was safe.”

Carl Edwards, who finished third, said it was a little bit dark by the end but NASCAR made the right call extending the race for one attempt at a green-white-checkered finish after the big wreck.

“It had to be a tough call for NASCAR but we could see well enough,” Edwards said. “The one thing NASCAR did was gave us time to change our visors (after the rain delay). I put on a clear visor. I think a lot of people did.

“So we were all prepared for less light. (It’s) just insane. … As it gets closer to the end of the race, it just gets crazy. It's an insane event, and I thought everybody did a pretty good job.”